Role title: Provincial Head, Person-Centred Care

Location: 525 University Ave, Toronto, ON, M5G 2L7

Anticipated time commitment: 1 day/week

Term: Two (2) years + one 2-year extension

Number of opportunities: One (1)

Position summary

Ontario Health is seeking expressions of interest for the position of Provincial Head, Person-Centred Care. This is a unique opportunity to provide clinical leadership in advancing a person-centred approach to care in the Ontario cancer system. This opportunity is open to all qualified candidates, including the incumbent.

Our goal is to partner with patients and healthcare providers to advance a person-centred approach to care. This includes a specific focus on patient, clinician and other stakeholder engagement, patient and provider experience, and development of resources, measures and reports critical to the implementation and evaluation of a person-centred approach. This individual will assist Ontario Health in the advancement of person-centred care to help achieve the goals of the Ontario Cancer Plan 6 and provide strategic leadership to the evolution of person-centred care in the Ontario cancer system. Person-centred care in this context includes the psychosocial, supportive and existential dimensions of living with cancer, equitable experience for populations that continue to face barriers in the cancer system, and the psychological health and safety of the workforce that delivers care.

Accountabilities

The primary responsibilities for this role include the following:

- Provide visionary clinical leadership for person‑centred care at the provincial level, spanning the physical, psychosocial, and supportive dimensions of the cancer experience.




- Advise on a strategic vision and goals for the Person Centred Care program and engage relevant partners in the cancer quality agenda.
- Partner with patients, care partners, staff and clinical providers in the cancer system (including Regional Cancer Programs) to enhance knowledge translation and exchange of person‑centred care priorities, drawing on health professions education and implementation methods to build capacity across regions.
- Provide leadership and direction on goals and objectives for advancing patient and provider experience and engagement, including those related to planning, development and implementation of evidence‑based guidelines, tools and quality standards.
- Support the design and evaluation of provincial education and capacity‑building initiatives that prepare clinicians and interprofessional teams to deliver person‑centred communication following trauma‑informed, culturally protected practice.
- Identify and shape provincial indicators and performance targets related to person‑centred care priorities for the organization, including for the Regional Cancer Programs.
- Chair and/or participate in provincial advisory committees and expert panels related to person‑centred care initiatives, including the Patient Experience and Engagement Provincial Committee and Clinical Council.
- Provide leadership to regional stakeholders in the design,



implementation and scale of system‑level initiatives to support provider experience and wellbeing within the cancer system (e.g., initiatives addressing psychological health and safety of the workforce, moral distress, prevention of violence and harassment).
- Provide leadership to set clinical guidance and standards for models of care that promote appropriateness of care modality, setting and provider, and engagement of the interprofessional team.
- Collaborate with other Clinical Leads to support cross‑program initiatives and address common goals related to advancing health equity, improved patient and provider experience, effective integrated services, improved outcomes and sustainable systems, with explicit attention to populations experiencing persistent inequities in cancer care including Indigenous, rural and remote, newcomer, and 2SLGBTQ+ communities.
- Act as a liaison between the cancer portfolio and broader Ontario Health teams to engage and establish person‑centred care.
- Collaborate on behalf of OH with relevant clinical communities and other key stakeholders such as funding bodies, research bodies and patient and family advisors as needed.
- Provide advice, guidance and clinical leadership to staff preparing papers, reports, presentations, etc.
- Participate in project meetings and other Ontario Health‑related committees as needed.
- Lead speaking engagements and provide representation at public events as needed.

Qualifications

- A clinician – preferably a physician (e.g., family physician; medical, surgical or radiation oncologist; psychiatrist, palliative care physician) whose practice contributes to person‑centred care in the cancer system, curre

📌 Provincial Head, Person-Centred Care (Toronto)
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